Why do we use pre activities before a reading text or a speaking topic? 1. to raise learners’ awareness 2. to wake them up 3. to generate ideas 4. to learn the necessary vocabulary that may appear in the text or conversation 5. to stimulate discussion Why do we use post activities after the reading…
Knowledge is power (Sir Francis Bacon) Most of us will agree that twitter and blogging has had a great impact on our teaching or self improvement. When I read my colleagues blog posts I find lots of similarities between me and them. The most important is the enthusiasm we have for teaching. We all…
My March themes and some activities for these days are as follows. I hope I’ll be able to use some of them with my classes. 1. March 4, the world book day : In the class we can create posters telling why we should read, how reading can help us to become ourselves….
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Mahatma Gandhi I’ve been thinking about commenting or retweeting since I read the post Karenne Sylvester wrote. I had been reading blogs before I started blogging but I never left a comment. It was most probably I was a stranger, not a member of…
For sometime I’ve been using web 2.0 tools for follow-ups. They are also great for pre activities. This is something I used with my 10 graders for their reading activity last week and from now on I’ll try to find ways how I can use them for pre and post activities. The reading…
In my month themes I wrote I’d like to do something related with the Oscars as we all know the nominees now. Today I assigned my students to prepare small talks on it. For these short presentations my students will have 3 minutes to talk. I prepare a rubric to mark their presentations too. They…
Twitter enabled me to reach many links and resources and delicious is another tool which makes my teaching life easier these days. I try to bookmark the interesting articles, lesson ideas and tools. There are so many great things on my delicious list now and I can prepare a lesson wherever I am. I don’t…
I started a ‘train the trainer’ course in January. At today’s session, we looked into some listening activities and dictation techniques. As a teacher, I have never liked doing dictation in my class. It’s something I neglected. The only one I use is the wall dictation AKA the running dictation for motivating quotes whenever I feel…
I decided to publish a monthly series. I’ll try to set myself a goal and choose themes which will help my students to know more about the world. February will be a great month to start because of the Winter Olympics. Sport has always been my favourite. I never miss watching Olympic Games, World…
I wasn’t a technology enthusiast. I wasn’t even on FB. I just wanted to blog for my classes. While doing it, I started my journey in the cyber world. I didn’t know anything about twitter nor PLNs. I learned twitter is a wonderful arena for sharing links, knowledge and starting collaborations. I met wonderful educators who…
